Luan Schooler

Director of New Play Development & Dramaturgy. Luan joins Artists Rep with extensive background as dramaturg, literary manager, writer, and actor, along with administrative experience in marketing and development. Luan honed her skills as a company member of Perseverance Theatre in Alaska, working with then-artistic director Molly Smith on new plays and devised works with wide ranging artists including Paula Vogel, John Murrell, John Luther Adams and Darrah Cloud. She also conducted annual company audition tours to towns and remote villages throughout Alaska (where she enjoyed one of the most thrilling theatre experiences ever, a production of The Unsinkable Molly Brown by the community theatre in Nome). After leaving Alaska, Schooler became the Literary Manager/Dramaturg for Berkeley Rep. During seven years there, she worked with many luminary writers, including David Edgar, Naomi Iizuka, Salman Rushdie, Dominique Serrand, Rinde Eckert, Lillian Groag, Bridget Carpenter, Adam Rapp, and Robert Fagles, and astute directors Tony Taccone, Mark Wing-Davey, Stephen Wadsworth, and Lisa Peterson, among others. She has also worked on several devised pieces at Denver Center with artistic team Pavel Dobrusky and Per-Olav Sørensen, and worked as dramaturg at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, California Shakespeare Festival, A Traveling Jewish Theatre, And Shaking the Tree Theatre. Schooler took a several year hiatus from theatre to explore the dramaturgy of artisanal cheese, opening a small cheese shop, Foster & Dobbs, in Portland with her husband. Delicious though that experience was, the hunger for stories of greater complexity and variety prevailed and she returned to Alaska in 2011 to adapt her brother's memoir The Blue Bear with Leon Ingulsrud (co-founder and co-artistic director, SITI Company) for Perseverance Theatre. She is currently working with Ingulsrud and filmmaker Andrew McLean on a new project for Perseverance about polar explorer Roald Amundsen.
Posts by Luan Schooler:
Fresh Eyes on We Are Proud, 3rd Installment
Kate Duffly joined us again on Tuesday, February 16th. Here are her observations:
Fresh Eyes: Fresh Eyes on We Are Proud, 2nd Installment
This week, Lesli Mones and Roberta Hunt joined us as Fresh Eyes in rehearsal for We Are Proud… Roberta has a PhD in Peace and Conflict Studies, and is an...
Fresh Eyes on We Are Proud to Present...
Rehearsals just began for our upcoming production of We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known As South West Africa, From the German Südwestafrika,...
Oregon Play Prize Update
We are very happy to announce that there are 131 submissions to consider for the Oregon Play Prize.
Climate Change Theatre Action at Artists Rep
Around the world this fall, on the occasion of the Paris climate talks, actors, directors, and playwrights are gathering on the boards to support climate activism in the best way...
Fresh Eyes: Fresh Eyes on The Understudy, 4th Installment
Fresh Eyes checked in on The Understudy at the first preview performance this week – their last time as a group.
Fresh Eyes: Fresh Eyes on The Understudy, 3rd Installment
In this installment, Fresh Eyes observed two different sessions: a run through and a technical rehearsal.
Oregon Play Prize: Calling all Oregon playwrights!
Table|Room|Stage will accept submissions for the Oregon Play Prize from November 1, 2015 through January 31, 2016.
Project One: A Day with Yussef
We brought Yussef El Guindi down from Seattle in August to spend a day talking about The Talented Ones.
Fresh Eyes: Fresh Eyes on The Understudy, 2nd Installment
Our band* of Fresh Eyes volunteers sat in on another Understudy rehearsal on Sunday, August 23.